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So Much for Freedom and Democracy

So Much for Freedom and Democracy

One might wonder why Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky is delaying what he has already conceded: giving in to Russia’s pre-invasion demands. According to the media-political narrative, it’s because he’s the modern Churchill: a brave defender of freedom and democracy. We know that the media-political elite lie about

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Meet the New Boss Same as the Old Boss

Meet the New Boss Same as the Old Boss

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Freedom Must Begin at Home

Freedom Must Begin at Home

Laura Rosen Cohen brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, The Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a

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Klaus and Hunter’s Secret Ukraine Adventure

Klaus and Hunter’s Secret Ukraine Adventure

If someone tried to tell you about a secretive web of deals linking bio-weapons research in Ukraine, Hunter Biden, Anthony Fauci, Jeffrey Epstein and Klaus Schwab, you’d surely laugh it off as a looney conspiracy theory. Except that, for once, truth seems to be stranger than conspiracy theory. It

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One Step Forward Two Steps Back

One Step Forward Two Steps Back

Rupert Darwall cfact.org Rupert Darwall is a Senior Fellow at the RealClear Foundation. The day after President Biden announced that the United States would ban imports of Russian oil and gas, a group of eleven powerful European investment funds that includes Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, outlined plans

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Censorship Is about Power, Not Science

Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor Examining Putin’s lies: 1. Putin said his army was only near the border of Ukraine for military training and that he would not invade Ukraine. 2. Then he said he was only sending in ‘peacekeepers’ to stop any conflict in Donbas – yet his army is now well

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Is the Empire Flying Too Close to the Sun?

Is the Empire Flying Too Close to the Sun?

J M White Information Opinion Who is watching developments unfolding in Eastern Europe with a feeling of deja vu? Haven’t we been here before with Iraq? And Libya? And what’s its name – Afghanistan? Who noticed how just overnight Covid coverage disappeared from television and newspapers and the big

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The West Sits in Judgement

The West Sits in Judgement

It is no surprise to me how the international political class has reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia has always been hated because of the threat it poses to the international order. Since the end of World War II, the West, centred around America, has considered itself the

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Tell Us about Life in Your Country

Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to writers in other countries asking you to please consider writing an article for The BFD telling

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The Secret to Peace and Prosperity

Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real

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It’s Happening

It’s Happening

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Trudeau Is Being Held to Account

When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pontificated to the world that, “Canada will… stand against authoritarianism”, it was astonishing that he managed to keep a straight face. After all, this was the same PM who, barely a week earlier, was not just arresting and detaining hundreds of Canadian citizens without

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